quieter months, encourage more visitors to Aberdeen City and Shire, encourage more local people to visit leading facilities, increase the length of visitors’ stay in Aberdeenshire and to gather accurate visitor flow data.”

Each attraction is issuing 1000 special tickets on a first come, first served basis.

Aberdeenshire Council’s infrastructure services committee chair Peter Argyle said: “The North-east has a wonderful selection of visitor attractions and it’s great to see this group get together to encourage the public to get out and visit more of them in what is normally a quieter period.”

During November, the pilot attractions will meet and evaluate the scheme with 2018 in mind.